That article sucked. Bobby died of complications of an "std" he got in prison? Hasn't the family always said it was HIV? And I've never heard them say they know he caught it while in prison. The premise of the article is that this large family has had more than the usual tragedy and bad luck, but it only talks about four members. If I were reading this not knowing anything about the family I would assume they didn't have too much more bad luck than most of the other large families I know.
Anyway, the Debarge bad luck started with their parents. Clearly neither one of the parents was worth anything and it's hard for worthless people to raise successful human beings. I'm glad Bunny, El and Chico are doing better these days.
"The Debarge bad luck started with their parents. Clearly neither one of the parents was worth anything and it's hard for worthless people to raise successful human beings."
Truer words were never said. The breakdown of the family leads to so much disfunction and anger.
There are many things that the individual members of this family have done that would make anyone's jaw drop and eyes pop out! LOL! Still they were a very talented bunch.
Truth is they were raised ...in a special way!
Now El is one of, if not THE one, I’d like to spend some time with just to listen to his acoustic piano renditions of so called oldies.
As far as voice is concerned, beyond El DeBarge, only Smokey still has it the same way as at his beginnings.
There’s a video of El doing « time will reveal » on the Brian McKnight show. Just knocks me off every time I’m watching and listening to this.
If Genius had another name in the 80s it could have used many names. But El DeBarge would definitely have fit perfectly
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Refresh my memory but what exactly did their mother do wrong in raising them other than Marty an a-hole
I meant marry.
I was more asking about their upbringing. If their mom was pulling some crap while they were little then I’m with you. If her bull is more in line with their adult lives then that’s a different story
Sounds like Mama didn’t protect the kids from Papa...
To me Bobby was the best singer out of all of them, better than El. He was the countertenor equivalent to Melvin Franklin. Just check out his lead on “You & I”, you’ll see what I mean.
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